Carl Friedrich Gauss (Image: Wikipedia) For a lot of people, mathematics is the subject they were glad to leave behind at school. Cold, hard, full of rules and one right answer. So it can come as a surprise that one of the greatest minds who ever lived didn’t merely respect mathematics. He crowned it. Mathematics…
New Delhi: A fire broke out in the kitchen chimney of the Parikrama revolving restaurant in central Delhi’s Connaught Place on Tuesday afternoon, prompting the evacuation of the building. There was no casualty.Delhi Fire Service (DFS) said a call about the fire at the restaurant on Barakhamba Road reached it at 3.40 pm, following which…
According to the revised BMC circular, the employee will be required to take charge of the new post within 15 days from the date of acceptance of the promotion order Mumbai: Following a demand for a probe into civic engineers declining promotions, the BMC has issued a revised circular stating that if it is found…
According to official data, Bengaluru had 3.1 lakh stray dogs in the 2019 census Bengaluru: Why has the stray dog population not reduced in Bengaluru despite spending more than Rs 100 crore on Animal Birth Control (ABC) programmes?More than 20 lakh saplings were planted across Bengaluru in the past two decades, but only around 9…
Ex-banker, company CMD get 7-year jail for loan fraud Chennai: A CBI court in Chennai sentenced a former senior manager of the Central Bank of India in Chennai and the chairman and managing director of a private company to seven years of rigorous imprisonment each in a housing loan fraud case. The court also imposed…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has refused to pass any order while hearing a petition filed by city-based Syed Qutubuddin Masood, who alleged that his vote, along with that of his family ,was deleted from the electoral rolls due to which they could not exercise their adult franchise in the 2024 general election.Masood alleged inaction on…
Pre paid help line Opsretar fix BJP party flage at there parking area opposite Kolkata Airport Old Tarminal, photo Mayukh Sengupta Kolkata: In a desperate bid to stay afloat after the closure of the illegal car-rental kiosk outside the city airport, drivers and operators associated with the Trinamool Congress-controlled union that ran the facility have…
This is an AI image used for representation Ghaziabad: A total of 2,379 vehicles were penalised during an intensive two-day enforcement and road safety campaign, led by the Uttar Pradesh Transport Department, for violations of the Motor Vehicles Act and traffic safety regulations, officials said on Tuesday.The Ghaziabad transport commissioner, Dr Siyaram Verma, said that…
Hisar: In a significant development linked to the Chanot village water agitation, the administration has acted against over 30 social media accounts allegedly associated with the ongoing protest over the removal of a T-connection from a drinking water pipeline. The protest, which has now stretched on for 46 days, has seen villagers hold a mahapanchayat…
A farmer on his field at Ghogaon village in Karad Pune: Maharashtra ended June with only half of its normal monthly rainfall after the southwest monsoon lost momentum soon after its delayed onset, leaving all four meteorological subdivisions in deficit and most districts struggling with below-normal precipitation.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s seasonal rainfall…
